Write-in candidate runs for clucks

Charlotte Laws
My chicken Mae Poulet is running for vice-president. She could be the first "chick" in the White House. She knows how to cross the road (or aisle) to bring everyone together. FACEBOOK PHOTO

The next chicken to enter the White House may not be headed for the presidential plate.

Mae Poulet, a hen from California’s San Fernando Valley, just clucked her vice-presidential plans to take the White House. Atop the ticket will be a bull terrier from Tennessee.

“She’s official,” said Poulet spokesman Charlotte Laws, an animal rights advocate in Woodland Hills. “We need a new pecking order in America.

“It’s time to elect a chick to the White House.”

Laws, 52, an author, talk show host and former actress, said she found the orange buff orpington hen two years ago on Craigslist. The ad said, “Free. Would make a good dinner.”

But Mae Poulet had grander plans. Now cooped up with five rescue chickens in Laws’ backyard, she hasn’t laid an egg in months.

Instead, she teamed up with Satchel, a write-in canine candidate from Nashville. A rage on Facebook, the white terrier represents a new independent Bully Party. They aim to convert the White House to a kennel-coop Nov. 6.

For their “New Day in America,” Poulet called for safeguarding animals and stretching the nation’s two-party tent across the barnyard.

She also lambasted the nation’s top presidential contenders for their poor record in protecting animals – Gov. Mitt Romney for caging his pooch atop his car during a family trip; and President Barack Obama for adopting a pure-bred dog instead of a shelter rescue.

“Not everyone is a donkey or elephant,” said Mae

Poulet, in a press release issued by Laws Tuesday. “Some of us are chickens or even people. The two parties have fowled things up miserably.
“It’s time for a real change.”

White House prospects for the 3-year-old chick are hard to predict. Gallup hasn’t exactly polled this one.